03/18/2009 - Privatizing Roads

Published: March 19, 2009, 2 a.m.

Guest: Dr. Walter Block There are roughly 46,000 deaths per year on our nation's government-maintained and managed roads, but government never receives blame for this and so therefore has no real incentive to do anything about it.  Would a private road system put those who manage the roads in a position to make them safer and more efficient? We discussed this issue with Dr. Walter Block on today's program, an Austrian school economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, a Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans, a Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a supporter of privatizing the nation's roads.